Developers
In my day-to-day job I’m a web-developer and have since 2001 used a Mac as my primary development machine, this page have some tips and tricks, applications that I use and must recommend, general musings around developer tools and links to items you should know off.
Applications - development
I work as a developer and in my day job I use a set of tools that I couldn’t be without
- Zend Studio
After Zend went from the ZDE to base their editor on Eclipse the developing process has been greatly enhanced: there is now the entire Eclipse plugin base to choose from within one editor. Here especially the CVS and subversion plugins is a must to have and know. That said: I still use ZDE for debugging purposes since the Zend Studio one still isn’t up to speed ( but this will hopefully change in the near future ) - Zend Platform
Working as a PHP developer the Zend Platform, and then especially the Zend Debugger is the one thing that will save you a lot of work when catching that hard-to-reproduce bug. - TaskCoach
Keeping my to-do list in a sane order - RegExhibit
A very straight-forward tool that does one thing, and do it very well: build regular expressions with instant visual feedback on matching - VirtualBox
For running Linux and Windows to test my work. - Firefox
With web developer, Live HTTP headers, Modify headers and Selenium - Terminal
Because a ssh tunnel is all you need!
That’s it, I believe in choosing the right tools, of course testing out new ones you find, but then stick with the essentials. Having too many tools when developing just takes up your time.
Links
I have a del.icio.us account, but here are some of the links that should be read and studied:
- Strategies for effective code review
- highscalability.com
Has interesting insights when it comes to scaling sites - Dictionary of algorithms and data structures
- Software development magazine
- dataportability.org
- owasp.org
- securityfocus
Keep an eye on the exploits that are around - The art of Unix Programming
- SoftwareQuality Assurance Testing and Test tool resources
- schneier.com
Make sure to subscribe to Crypto-Gram - Scripteka
Collection of prototype.js derived framework. Note: the list is every single one ever made, make sure you test them properly before using them in production! - cheat-sheets.org
Enough to keep you occupied for a long time - coolosxapps.net
Nice listing of free OSX applications